Search Tag: healthcare systems
2025 21 Jul
As the healthcare landscape evolves through technological advancement, hospitals face the dual challenge of embracing digital innovation while ensuring clinical efficacy and staff engagement. Despite the availability of policy tools that support procurement decisions, there is a gap in structured, user-centred approaches that capture real-world...Read more
2025 21 Jul
As the healthcare landscape evolves through technological advancement, hospitals face the dual challenge of embracing digital innovation while ensuring clinical efficacy and staff engagement. Despite the availability of policy tools that support procurement decisions, there is a gap in structured, user-centred approaches that capture real-world...Read more
2025 13 Jul
Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have been developed to enhance the appropriateness of imaging referrals and improve the quality of care while containing healthcare costs. The ESR iGuide, based on appropriateness criteria adapted from the American College of Radiology for the European context, aims to support physicians at the point of...Read more
2025 13 Jul
Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have been developed to enhance the appropriateness of imaging referrals and improve the quality of care while containing healthcare costs. The ESR iGuide, based on appropriateness criteria adapted from the American College of Radiology for the European context, aims to support physicians at the point of...Read more
2025 19 Apr
Healthcare professionals are at the core of patient care, yet they often work in environments that inadvertently contribute to stress, fatigue and burnout. These challenges, if left unaddressed, can impact the quality of care, patient safety and provider retention. Human Factors Engineering (HFE) offers a structured, evidence-based framework for...Read more
2024 18 Apr
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2024 18 Mar
Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionised physicians' daily work, yet concerns persist regarding their negative impact on patient safety, work-life balance, and burnout. Physicians spend a considerable portion of their time on EHR-related tasks, often exceeding the time spent directly with patients. Standardising EHR use measurement...Read more
2024 18 Mar
Electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionised physicians' daily work, yet concerns persist regarding their negative impact on patient safety, work-life balance, and burnout. Physicians spend a considerable portion of their time on EHR-related tasks, often exceeding the time spent directly with patients. Standardising EHR use measurement...Read more
2024 06 Feb
Healthcare systems are facing ever-evolving challenges; they have to adapt to evolving needs and megatrends such as population ageing, digitalisation, and climate change, as well as withstand natural or man-made shocks, like pandemics, natural and environmental disasters, biological, chemical, cyber, financial and nuclear threats, as well...Read more
2023 30 Oct
Awareness, systems approach, interaction from top-down and bottom-up, willingness and urgency to take action and tackle the climate change problem with the decarbonisation of the health sector will require efforts from people involved in healthcare and the environment, according to the principle of “One Health”. Interventions are urgent. Time is...Read more
2023 30 Oct
Awareness, systems approach, interaction from top-down and bottom-up, willingness and urgency to take action and tackle the climate change problem with the decarbonisation of the health sector will require efforts from people involved in healthcare and the environment, according to the principle of “One Health”. Interventions are urgent. Time is...Read more
2023 30 Oct
Awareness, systems approach, interaction from top-down and bottom-up, willingness and urgency to take action and tackle the climate change problem with the decarbonisation of the health sector will require efforts from people involved in healthcare and the environment, according to the principle of “One Health”. Interventions are urgent. Time is...Read more
2022 05 Sep
World Patient Safety Day is a global public health day that takes place every year on September 17. The objective is to bring together all stakeholders within the healthcare system to raise awareness surrounding patient safety. This year’s chosen theme is medication safety . Today, there are thousands of medications used to prevent and treat...Read more
2022 01 Jul
I have lymphoma. Is that my problem or that of my physician? Or perhaps the problem of research and industry? It is indeed my problem and I need my physician badly. She can only do her work when good science is being done and when the healthcare industry provides her with the right treatments. There is a lot of work and cooperation that needs to happen,...Read more
2022 11 May
Session 1 29 March Session 2 May 11, 2022 | 12:30 to 2:00 pm ET Session 3 May 26, 2022 | 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET Session 4 June 8, 2022 | 6:00 to 8:30 pm ET Find CMA On Social Media Read more
2021 20 Oct
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe. Healthcare systems are facing significant financial challenges in terms of lost revenue, resource shortages, and increased healthcare costs. Never before has there been a greater need to focus on planning and budgeting, identifying reasons for the lack of preparedness by the healthcare sector,...Read more
2021 09 Sep
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that healthcare systems worldwide need significant transformation and change. There is an urgent need for new models of care to improve patient outcomes and be better prepared for future health crises similar to the recent pandemic. With the increasing prevalence of chronic disease and a...Read more
2021 20 Jul
The initial global outbreak of COVID-19 revealed cracks in pandemic preparedness - from PPE to ventilators and oxygen, hospitals and skilled healthcare workers were stretched the brink in often physically and emotionally gruelling environments. Emerging variants and under-vaccination threaten future waves of the virus. Is your hospital ready?...Read more
2021 20 May
There is no end to the number of applications available for smartphones, tablets and other digital devices. In recent years, wearable devices have also come onto the market, and are increasingly popular. These devices track personal health data, with the generalised goal of improving consumer behaviours related to health and wellbeing. Emerging...Read more